title: Cerebellar seizures.
abstract: Epilepsy, especially with refractory seizures, is thought to arise only from cortical lesions or substrate. The authors report on 2 patients with refractory epilepsy and cerebellar lesions. Depth electrodes were placed within the cerebellar lesions in both patients, and intracranial electroencephalographic recordings showed seizure origin from the cerebellar lesions. One patient eventually attained seizure control with antiepileptic drugs. The other case involved a child with generalized myoclonic epilepsy associated with a pilocytic astrocytoma of the cerebellum. This patient obtained seizure control following gross-total resection of the tumor.
authors.affiliation: Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boop
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wheless
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Van Poppel
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McGregor
authors.forename: Frederick A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Boop
mesh_terms: D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D004831:Epilepsies, Myoclonic / Q000209:etiology; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D000927:Anticonvulsants